Paper supplies



Feb. 21, 1933. M q STERN 1,898,271

PAPER SUPPLIES Fil ed Dec. 30, 1929 V I l TNVENT OR 3 +3 /'1 MIL my a: arm/v I ATTORNEY Patented Feb. 21, 1933 UNITED s'rA'r s PATENT OFFICE MILTON C. STERN, OF DAYTON, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE EGBY REGISTER COMPANY, OF

DAYTON, OHIO, A CORPORATION OF OHIO PAPER. SUPPLIES Ipplication flied December 30, 1929. Serial No. 417,409.

My invention relates to manifold stationery in which a plurality of copies are desired.

The primary object of my invention is to provide an article of manufacture for duplicating identical data simultaneously and for a rapid detachment of the sheets written upon and the carbon interleaves.

My invention is adaptable to a variety of uses such as in autographic registers,'b1lling machines, typewriters and other. equivalent mechanism.

It is a further object of my invention to provide such an arrangement of paper and carbon strips that they Will be easily retained in their predetermined relationshi will not need any special formation paper strips or carbon strips and all clipping, punching or other mutilation of the respective strips will be avoided which have heretofore been employed for the purpose of selectively separating the strips.

Furthermore, my invention is adaptable to being applied at the time the paper strips are correlated, preferably with printed forms upon them as they pass from the printing press, thus enabling my invention to be adapted and the results secured without the necessity for special machinery and without disturbing the regular productive processes now in efiect in industries and in offices or other commercial practice.

In particular,-it is my object to provide means of grasping the paper strips with one hand and the carbon strips with the other and being able to pull them by a natural movement apart Without tearing or smudging and with a broad, firm foundation for the grip on the respective groups of strips. The sheets are so arranged that one hand always gras s the carbons, if desired, thereby leaving t 1e other hand not only free but clean for manipulating the paper strips. The tips of the fingers need not be employed and thereby the objection to handling the carbon sheets with the tips of the fingers is avoided due to the accumulation of carbon particles.beneath the finger nails.

Referring to the drawing:

Figure 1 is a perspective of a portion of a length of superimposed strips and interleaved carbons arranged accordingto'my sive layers at the other end; of a length ofv superimposed paper and carbon strips.

In practicing my invention I provide a pluralit of superimposed paper strips 1, 2 and 3. for these strips are all aligned laterally with respect to one another and directly superimposed with one another. Interleaved be tween said strips and longitudinally co-extensive therewith are a plurality of strips of substantially the same width of carbon or other reproducing medium designated 4 and 5. These strips with respect to themselves are superimposed in direct lateral alignment, but as a group are bodily displaced laterally so that their edges 6 and 7 project beyond the edges 8, 9 and 10 which are adjacent thereto and form the edges of the sheets .1, 2 and 3.

f course, any number may be employed,

The other edges of the carbon 4 and 5, which edges are designated 11 and 12 are spaced inwardly within the edges 13. 14 and 15 of the paper sheets which strips hide the edges 11 and-'12 of the carbon strips. v

This arrangement results in the carbon strips pro ecting as a group along one/edge beyond the edges of the paper strips and on the other side projecting as a group beyond the carbon strips.

In practice the operator when desiring to separate the two groups of strips after they have been ejected from a machine or torn off hands of theoperator do not have any portion of the strips therebetween there is no resistance to this movement and no necessity for any selective operation lay-hand.

It will be understood that I desire to comprehend within my invention-such modifications as may be clearly embraced Within the scope of my claims and invention.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is: 7

1. In combination, superimposed, laterally aligned paper strips and interleaved carbon strips projecting laterally thereof in 2. marginal strip, said carbon strips having the other side thereof spaced inwardly of the other edge of said superimposed paper strips.

2. In combination, a plurality of longitudinally arranged superimposed paper and carbon strips, longitudinally aligned in respective, groups of paper strips and carbon strips and laterally displaced relative to one another as a group whereby the paper margins free of'the carbon strips will be provided on one side and the carbon margins free of the paper strips will be provided on the other side.

3. In combination, a plurality of superimposed, aligned paper strips, coinciding with one another longitudinally, and a plurality of interleaved alternate carbon strips coinciding with one another longitudinally but off set as a group laterally in one direction from the paper stripswhich are offset laterally in the other direction forming respective marginal strips of one group only on one margin.

4. Continuous record strips in superimposed relation and a transfer stri between adjacent record strips, one longitu inal margin of the transfer strip projecting beyond contiguous longitudinal margins of the record 'strips, opposite longitudinal marginal port-ions of the transfer strip being inset with re- 'spect to adjacent marginal edges of the record 45 strips.

In testimony whereof, I affix my signature. i LHLTON C. STERN. 

